Top Ten Tuesday | Longest Books I’ve Read!

Happy Top Ten Tuesday, everyone! This past weekend was Thanksgiving here in Canada. I absolutely love long weekends and spending time with family. Above all, my heart is happy with lots and lots of pumpkin pie, which is my absolute favourite! I also had lots of cozy reading time. Nothing beats it! But, now it’s back to my Master’s and regular ‘life’ stuff.

For those of you who are not familiar, Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl where she assigns a new topic each week and posts a top ten list to follow that theme.

Today’s theme is longest books I’ve read. This week’s top ten list really shows me that a lot of the longest books I’ve read are around the same length. It’s interesting to me that I tend to read books between 500-800 pages and have yet to surpass the 900 page mark. Also, most of them happen to be fantasy. I’ve thrown in one contemporary though, because I do think it’s rare to find longer contemporaries in comparison to fantasy.

The books are in order from the least amount of pages to the most. As always, the titles of the book link to their synopsis!

Heir of Fire by Sarah J. Maas // 565 pages // This is the latest book in the Throne of Glass series that I have read. While it is not one of Maas’ biggest books, it definitely is up there. Maas is definitely great at creating long books!

The Host by Stephenie Meyer // 620 pages // I rarely hear about The Host, but it is one of my favourite books. I really enjoy reading it and each time is just as enjoyable as the first. Even though it’s a long read, I certainly am not bored!

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire // 636 pages // This is my second favourite book in the Harry Potter series. I think it is a perfect length and really enjoy it each time I read it!

Lady Midnight by Cassandra Clare // 720 pages // Cassie Clare is one of my favourite authors and her books are certainly long. While I did struggle to get into Lady Midnight, I loved it in the end. I’m really looking forward to reading Lord of Shadows soon, which I think is even bigger than this one! In addition to Maas, Clare makes some BIG books!

City of Heavenly Fire by Cassandra Clare // 725 pages // This book is a great end to a series that I absolutely adore. It’s 700+ pages were a great send-off! I think maybe one of these days I should find the time to re-read the series.

Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer // 756 pages // Twilight is not one of my favourite series. While I did enjoy it, I did not fall into the craze that quickly followed it. That said, it probably is the longest book I read in high-school and clocks in at the second longest book I’ve read ever (I’m pretty sure!).

Outlander by Diana Gabaldon // 850 pages // Oh Outlander. This series is honestly books that resemble bricks. I love the show, I love the book. But the length of these books scare me. I’m honestly impressed that I made it through the first book!

While I certainly have not read a crazy amount of long books, I think I’ve done pretty well. I’m actually curious to see within the next year though if I will read a book that is longer than Outlander. I think it would be interesting to revisit this at some point! Also, I’m curious to know if I start to branch out into more adult books if they will be longer – seems like they probably would be. I guess we’ll have to wait and see!

“More adult books” in the fantasy genre may be a bit longer than the books you’ve got listed…but the average literary fiction novel doesn’t get higher than about 400 pages (and literary fiction is the genre that I feel would most be considered “adult books”.) Unless you want to dive into the classics, because there are several of those that are real beasts.

Definitely do! They’re obviously not for everyone, but I certainly do love them. I was late to the game with Maas – I only started reading her books this year. But I quickly fell in love with her writing!

This is a great list! I purposely left out Harry Potter and Twilight, as I thought they would take up most of the spots. But The Host made my list! I’ve yet to read anything by Sarah J. Maas. I’ve heard some really mixed things about her books, so I’m quite wary. I also gave up on Casandra Clare; as much as I enjoyed the first two books in The Mortal Instruments series, I was already so behind, and she keeps writing more, and I decided I didn’t enjoy them enough to keep on.

I know haha, they definitely would be the majority of my list so I tried to limit it! Maas is definitely either liked, loved or not liked at all haha! But that’s the best thing about reading, having different tastes in authors and books! 😊

Yess, Sarah J. Maas books make up some of the longest books that I’ve read too!
Did you hear that the final Throne of Glass book, Kingdom of Ash, is like 990 pages?? So you’ll definitely beat that 900 page limit if ya continue on with the series! 🙂

Woah I never realized The Unexpected Everything was that long of a book. Haha I guess I never realized since Morgan Matson’s books always seem to pass by so quickly since they’re so amazing 🙂 Have you read any of Morgan Matson’s other books?

Your list is filled with so many excellent books! I remember really enjoying Heir of Fire, although I’m quite behind on the Throne of Glass books so it’s been a while. I think I need to re-read the series. I also need to re-read Cassandra Clare’s books. TMI and TDI were my whole world when I first got into YA, but I haven’t read anything by Clare since City of Heavenly Fire. I couldn’t agree more – it was the perfect send off to the series.